Artists Saymoukda Vongsay (aka the Refugenius) and May Lee-Yang took the stage at Coffman Memorial at the University of Minnesota performing The Hmong-Lao Friendship Play or The Lao-Hmong Friendship Play in April of 2017. The play has since then be renamed to The Friendship Play. The play chronicles the real–life friendship between Vongsay, ethnically Lao, and Lee-Yang, ethnically Hmong. They were both born in refugee camps in Thailand and, along with their families, immigrated to the Twin Cities when they were young. The play discusses some of the similarities and differences as their families navigated a new culture, place and growing up within it.